Best Practice that Support ELA Common Core Standards In Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, written by Ceri B. Dean, Elizabeth Ross Hubbell, Howard Pitler, & BJ Stone, is a best practice book with many useful suggestions for improving instruction in the classroom. With the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS), instructors must guide students in reading, analyzing, and interpreting complex text. To facilitate this need in standards, Dean et al. (2012) suggest using “cues, questions, and advance organizer” to help students cultivate understanding.
Cues and Questions One of the six shifts in the ELA Common Core Standards mentioned by David Coleman is “text-based answers.” Coleman (2010) implies, text-based answers are an important shift in Common Core Standards because they tell “how much knowledge and evidence a student gain[s] from each text that they read and [how] they integrate that knowledge together.” Cues, questions, and advance organizers is an ideal solution to the call in this shift. …show more content…
52). If my goal in the classroom is to help my students access text to gain understanding by gathering evidence, it is important I “choose questions carefully so that what [I] ask reminds students of what they know about a topic and keep them focused on the objective” (Dean et al., 2010, p. 53). Dean et al. (2010) restate, “providing cues that help students access the prior knowledge about a topic brings that knowledge to the conscious level and increases the likelihood that students will pay attention to or engage with new information related to the topic” (p.
Cues and Questions One of the six shifts in the ELA Common Core Standards mentioned by David Coleman is “text-based answers.” Coleman (2010) implies, text-based answers are an important shift in Common Core Standards because they tell “how much knowledge and evidence a student gain[s] from each text that they read and [how] they integrate that knowledge together.” Cues, questions, and advance organizers is an ideal solution to the call in this shift. …show more content…
52). If my goal in the classroom is to help my students access text to gain understanding by gathering evidence, it is important I “choose questions carefully so that what [I] ask reminds students of what they know about a topic and keep them focused on the objective” (Dean et al., 2010, p. 53). Dean et al. (2010) restate, “providing cues that help students access the prior knowledge about a topic brings that knowledge to the conscious level and increases the likelihood that students will pay attention to or engage with new information related to the topic” (p.